Medical City enhances catheterization laboratory

MANILA, Philippines - In furtherance of The Medical City’s commitment to provide world-class cardiovascular care, its Cardiac and Vascular Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab) has acquired the Artis Zee Floor, a state-of-the-art multi-purpose imaging system, along with cutting-edge supplementary software. 

The equipment allows for sharper images of the arteries of the heart, brain, internal organs, and limbs.

The Artis Zee Floor is most useful to TMC’s interventional adult and pediatric cardiologists, interventional neurosurgeons, interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, and cardiac rhythm specialists.

The high-quality images result in a more accurate diagnosis, which leads to precise interventions such as placing stents to relieve blockages in arteries.

The new system requires much less radiation exposure to the patient, shorter procedure times, and less use of dye during the procedure. 

With its introduction, the TMC now features one of the country’s fully equipped catheterization laboratories.

TMC’s Cath Lab also features the following equipment: Intravascular Ultrasound, which provides a view from within the coronary arteries and facilitates coronary angioplasty; the Rotablator, which assists in angioplasty of calcified arteries; and the Fractional Flow Reserve Analyzer, which provides instantaneous information on the functional significance of borderline coronary blockages.

The lab also does electrophysiologic studies with ablation capability, which is used to diagnose and treat potentially dangerous cardiac rhythm irregularities.